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Dylan Wilson

23 February 2015

Professor Karen D. Brame

Western Civilization Mid-term Assessment

1. 3 tenets of Hermetic doctrine:

* All matter contains the divine spirit

* The sun was the most important agency for transmission of the divine spirit and thus rightly occupied the center of the universe.

* These beliefs fostered the idea of the natural magician who can unleash powers of nature through alchemy, astrology, and magic.

2. Copernican Revolution:

Copernicus concluded that the Earth was not stationary. “What appears to be a motion of the sun is in truth a motion of the Earth.” He believed the earth moved in perfect circles around the sun, as did other bodies in the universe. This would mean day passed into night because the earth turned on its axis. This change from the earth centered to a sun centered universe became known as the Copernican Revolution. He worked on this heliocentric model of the universe for almost twenty-five years. He released his work on the year of his death because the church denounced it as illogical. But it sparked other scholars to venture into his footsteps such as Giordano Bruno.

3. 3 Laws of planetary motion , according to Johannes Kepler:

* The first law stated that the planets moved in ellipses around the sun.

* The second law declared that the planets’ velocity varied according to their distance to the sun.

* The third law concluded that the physical relationship between the moving planets could be expressed mathematically.

Kepler thus showed “that the celestial machine…is the likeness of a clock,” further extending the Copernican Revolution.

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5. According to John Locke, how does he propose that humans gain these experiences?:

Locke pictured the human brain at birth as a blank sheet of paper. Schools and social institutions should therefore play a major role in molding the individual from childhood to adulthood. We gain these experiences from social...